The Christmas campaign working to ensure that '˜Food Works Not Food Waste'Â

The Real Junk Food Project Sheffield is more than half way to its target of raising £50,000 to help stamp out food waste in Sheffield.
The Real Junk Food Campaign is launching a Christmas crowdfunder to raise 50,000 for it to have a permanent base which will allow it to save more junk food from the bin, feed more hungry people and to tackle climate change.The Real Junk Food Campaign is launching a Christmas crowdfunder to raise 50,000 for it to have a permanent base which will allow it to save more junk food from the bin, feed more hungry people and to tackle climate change.
The Real Junk Food Campaign is launching a Christmas crowdfunder to raise 50,000 for it to have a permanent base which will allow it to save more junk food from the bin, feed more hungry people and to tackle climate change.

The campaign Food Works not Food Waste was launched on November 20 and has already received 51 per cent funding.

With help from generous members of the public and local businesses it hopes to reach the full amount by 4pm on Christmas Eve. The team is looking to raise £50,000 through crowdfunder.co.uk to secure a long term warehouse lease, invest in commercial refrigeration units and on-site kitchen facilities so the team can 'stamp out food waste in Sheffield.'

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Project founder and director, Jo Hercberg, sais: 'Building Food Works will transform the amount of perfectly good food going into bellies, not bins in Sheffield. We've already saved 319 tonnes in just three  years and created hundred  of thousands of meals with it but this is only 0.1 per cent of food wasted in Sheffield.

'We need to do so much more to stop this. By supporting Food Works you will help us increase that 0.1 per cent by having a stable base to operate from and we'd expand our work to include farms, producers and wholesalers.

'We'd then be able to begin preserving, storing, cooking and feeding people with food the second it gets to the warehouse.

'On top of this we'd increase our education programme s to include workshops for all ages and get even more people in Sheffield engaged and involved.

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'From volunteering to training to eating there really is something everybody can do to help solve Sheffield's food waste problem.

'We've been blown away by the support we've had so far but know there is still work to do.

'Half of the funds will help us with the warehouse lease and kitchen but the purchase of a walk-in fridge/freezer may not be possible if we don't hit our target.'

The team will also continue with the work they already do at The Real Junk Food Project Sheffield, running two pay-as-you-feel cafés, catering weddings and events, education programmes and the Sharehouse Market at Burngreave under a new, shorter name with a much bigger mission.

The crowdfunding campaign offers supporters rewards. Visit www.crowdfunder.co.uk/food-works-for-sheffield for details.